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Hi All I'm a long time lurker. Since around 2009 when I watched "Should Google go Nuclear?". I invested $150 in Eric Lerner's dense plasma focus. I'm aware that particular company is high risk. I would gladly lose $2000 just to hope to be on the ground floor of some of these other companies. But wil...

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Thoughts?

So if this thing works then what will Greenpeace switch it's focus to?

Overpopulation?

Orient the chamber so that no one standoff is horizontal. A slight reduction of the forces from the cantilever.

Ok went back and did some reading.....big difference between the magrid and the virtual cathode.

Would the coolant routes through the supports have to be metal? If so then would the single wire and it's field be enough to keep the field lines away? Or is there a non-conducting material that can handle cryogenic temps? Or does the shielding simply take care of that all? I'm not sure what you ar...

Would the coolant routes through the supports have to be metal? If so then would the single wire and it's field be enough to keep the field lines away?

Or is there a non-conducting material that can handle cryogenic temps?

Or does the shielding simply take care of that all?

I forgot to mention that I am a layman with only a basic understanding of magnetism If I understand things correctly you have a single wire going into each magnet, it winds many times, and then leaves (back to the flange). First a couple prelim. question. Could or is each coil a single circuit? Is i...

Regarding the nubs that connect the magnets; If the magnets are supported via the flanges don't you still have the supports in the field lines?

I think I understand the Ma grid fairly well. I'm not clear how the biased grids worked. Why did they melt whereas the Ma grid does not?

Did Hirsch/Farnsworth ever consider a Ma grid? If so then why not use it?

If they did not consider a magnetic grid then why not?

I like Polywell.

To sum it up. If we hear nothing and can't account for the EMC2 staff and then other countries start their own PWRs then high chance it works.

If the idea works then there is a wild card of sorts. How would a Polywell built in 2025 compare in cost to the first one used in an operational power plant?

Is this why there is a lot of discussion about gas and liquid fuels from coal?

What about hydrogen and fuel cells?

How cheaply would the Polywell have to make electricity to make hydrogen competitive with fossil fuels?